Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Representative; of a fractured vertebra suffered in an automobile accident; in Warren. Ohio. Defeated by Warren Gamaliel Harding for the Republican nomination for U. S. Senator in 1914. he later declined President Harding's offers of the Ambassadorship to Belgium and the governorships of Panama and Alaska...
...creek discovered in the Koyukuk River region of Alaska on the goth birthday of Oliver Wendell Holmes, retired U. S. Supreme Court Justice, was named Holmes Creek by the U. S. Geographic Board...
...Washington, Republican Senator Wesley Livsey Jones, longtime Dry, was renominated over a Wet. For the Senate, Democrats picked Homer T. Bone whose brother Scott used to be Governor of Alaska. Nominee Bone, an ardent "public ownership" man, is viewed with alarm by conservatives who will support Senator Jones. The Jones-Bone fight in November is expected to be close. Here again Demo-crats upped their primary vote in two years from 16,000 to 154,000 whereas Republicans let theirs fall from 297,000 to 170,000. Roland H. Hartley, Republican Governor for the last eight years, was defeated...
...October. He would then make at least two speeches in the Midwest, possibly in Minnesota and at his native West Branch, Iowa, in the farm strike area. There might also be speeches in Chicago and New York. ¶Thirty years ago young Raymond Robins was prospecting for gold in Alaska when he had a vision of a gigantic luminous cross against a snow-clad mountain. He fell on his knees, prayed. After making his fortune in gold, he returned to Chicago, took up social reform. A pallid-faced, burning-eyed young zealot, he crusaded up & down Halsted and West Madison...
This week Bob Crawford was to set out from Seattle, Wash, on the most newsworthy trip of his career: a triumphant flying return to Alaska. He had flown across the country, taking with him Pianist Harrison Potter and Soprano Ruby Mercer, both of whom have been associated with him in Chautauqua, and as publicity man his Princeton friend Harvey Phillips. They would crate the plane, sail up from Seattle to Seward, Alaska, then fly to Fairbanks for the first concert on Sept. 17. There would be caribou and moose hunting, mountain-climbing, sight seeing, then concerts in Seward, Juneau, Seattle...